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I am pleased to announce that Happening is no longer in beta and is being fully released today!

Feel free to visit our web application at http://www.whatshappening.io.

A Better Tomorrow (hopefully)

Fixed:

• Issue #8 : Descriptions now preserve their original formatting
• Issue #9 : Handling more scenarios when an event updates to minimize duplicate events
• Prettified CSS

View our current web application at: http://www.whatshappening.io

To filter or not to filter

Added:

• New Logo and Favicon
• Issue #7 : You can now filter by Student events and Official Boston College events.

View our current web application at: http://www.whatshappening.io

Thou Shall Have Event Links - Small Patch

Fixed:

• Issue #6: Important links are now kept when parsing events.
• Fixed color of event links in descriptions to help with visibility.

View our current web application at: http://www.whatshappening.io

That's one small patch for bugs, one giant fix for all events

Fixed:

• "This Week" failing to show events due to the end of the week going into the next month.

View the current web application at: http://www.whatshappening.io/

New Back-End for Event Searching

Added:

• Implemented full text searching for event retrieval from user entered search queries.
• Tables in database now use different engine.
• Fixed dimensions for event images.

Fixed:

• Text Readability for FAQ Section.
• Part of Issue #4.
• Event Display Label having incorrect label when searching is empty.
• Incorrect parsing of locations from some event titles.

View the current web application at: http://www.whatshappening.io/

Boston College Events Calendar Added

Added:

• Data about events on the Boston College Events Calendar is now apart of the Happening database.
• Date filtering has been added.
• Now, by default, events from the current week will be displayed (due to large volume of events collected now).

Fixed:

• #3 Invalid ReCAPTCHA Id error solved
• Database improvements to accommodate new features

View the current web application at: http://www.whatshappening.io/

First Public Announcement

Project Happening was publicly announced today.

Right now, we are looking for feedback as we add more features to the application. We plan to have a fully complete application by the beginning of the Fall semester, so please feel free to check out what we are working on and to submit any comments you have here:
http://goo.gl/forms/ui2sw4HXAW4pE2pV2
The form does require you to log into your Google account; however, no personal information is collected (all responses are anonymous).

Here is the original text that was included in the posts in the private Facebook groups for the Boston College classes of 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

Visit the application at:
http://www.whatshappening.io, or at
http://www.bostoncollegeevents.com